The University of Central Florida and Dr. Eduardo Salas, PhD, are partners in the Seminole County Patient Safety Council. Dr. Salas and the Council are currently looking for patient safety research opportinities that involved Seminole County hospitals and physician offices. Outlined below are some of the patient safety research papers previously orchestrated by Dr. Salas (downloads provided with the permission of the author(s)):
Eduardo Salas PhD, Katherine A. Wilson, C. Shawn Burke PhD, Heather A. Priest; Using Simulation-Based Training to Improve Patient Safety: What does it take? Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (July 2005); 31(7): 363-71 (Download PDF, 217 KB)
David P. Baker, J. Mathew Beaubien, Amy Holtzman (American Institutes for Research); Eduardo Salas (University of Central Florida); Paul Barach (University of Miami); Medical Team Training: An Initial Assessment and Future Directions; (Download PDF, 180 KB)
David P. Baker PhD, Eduardo Salas PhD, Heidi King MS CHE, James Battles PhD, Paul Barach MD MPH; The Role of Teamwork in the Professional Education of Physicians: Current Status and Assessment Recommendations; Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (April 2005); 31(4): 185-202 (Download PDF, 300 KB)
C S Burke, E Salas, K Wilson-Donnelly and H Priest; How to turn a team of experts into an expert medical team: guidance from the aviation and military communities; Qual Saf Health Care (2004);13:i96-i104 (Download PDF, 136 KB)
Risk Management Foundation, Harvard Medical Institutions; Teamwork in Health Care; RMF Forum (July 2003); 23(3): 1-17 (Download PDF, 156 KB)
K A Wilson, C S Burke, H A Priest, E Salas; Promoting health care safety through training high reliability teams; Qual Saf Health Care (2005);14: 303-309 (Download PDF, 104 KB)
Eduardo Salas, Katherine A. Wilson, Dana E. Sims, C. Shawn Burke, and Heather A. Priest; Teamwork Training for Patient Safety: Best Practices and Guiding Principles, in Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety, Chapter 44, pp. 803-822 (Download PDF, 1.5 MB)
Eduardo Salas, David Baker, Heidi King, and James Battles; Special Section Commentary: Opportunities and Challenges for Human Factors and Ergonomics in Enhancing Patient Safety; Human Factors (2006); 14: 1-4 (Download PDF, 48KB)
David P. Baker, Eduardo Salas, Paul Barach, James Battles and Heidi King; The Relation Between Teamwork and Patient Safety, in Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety, Chapter 17, pp. 259-271 Download PDF, 880 KB)
